It is time to harvest the hay on the Thomas Carroll farm. With a view toward Haystack Mountain, this photograph was taken on Crissey Hill above the Carroll hayfields about 1895. The house known as Crissey Place at the south end of the Village Green is clearly visible from the rear, and peeking up from the foliage in the middle of the photograph is the square belvedere on the Norfolk Academy, now the Norfolk Historical Museum. The railroad once ran behind these buildings as it skirted the green, and you can see the tracks in the middle ground of the photograph curving around to cross under Greenwoods Road (Route 44) at the far right.

— Text by Ann Havemeyer
— Photo courtesy of the Norfolk Historical Society